On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:08:28 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 19:38:22 on Thu, 21 Sep
2006, bof remarked:
If they're US cookbooks then you'll have to convert all the pint
measures to 0.8pint measures.

US recipes don't use pints, they use fluid oz. or cups (which
surprisingly work just as well for liquids as solids).

They also use a lot of quarts.

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Frank Erskine
Sunderland